Artifacts that make...Pigeons?

[Furin_Mirado]

Well, walnuts consist of a shell with something inside...much like an egg. It's a bit of a stretch but that's the best connection I could come up with.

Although I like the idea that it's a weapon designed to incapacitate the enemy by turning them into pigeons. I guess we'll have to wait and see. No doubt more interesting theories will be made once we see more arkentools or if the arkenhammer displays new abilities, heh.

[bingo_bob]

I think that it's just one of the hammer's random functions. It was one of the tools to create the world after all.

Maybe that's how pigeons came into existence.

Of course, the real question is, can you turn a pigeon back into a walnut?

[Furin_Mirado]

I think that it's just one of the hammer's random functions. It was one of the tools to create the world after all.

Maybe that's how pigeons came into existence.

Of course, the real question is, can you turn a pigeon back into a walnut?

Maybe you whack the pigeons using the other end of the hammer?

[Maurog]

And once in four or five times they will turn back into nuts.

[charles]

I'm betting the hammer can either DESTROY an item hit by it, or IMPROVE it.

Maybe the green side improves while the red side destroys but maybe its how you use it or completely random. Walnuts are improved into pigeons, maybe other items are improved into something else (if they aren't destroyed).

[Azukar]

The Arkenhammer's stated weakness is "Clarity if purpose", among other things. I think the people saying that nobody really knows what it's meant to do or how to make it work might be right. After all, in just about any system of gods, it's not man's place to understand their workings.

[Adrius]

I haven't seen this mentioned in these exact words.. so I will..

It's a tool of creation, presumably used by the titans when forming the world.

It's unsurprising that even an idiot smacking walnuts with it will spontaneously create life every few times.

[Jorkens]

I haven't seen this mentioned in these exact words.. so I will..

It's a tool of creation, presumably used by the titans when forming the world.

It's unsurprising that even an idiot smacking walnuts with it will spontaneously create life every few times.

It's a tool of Dwagon Taming and Lightning Heaving too, though... I don't think there is a particularly simple analysis along the lines of "this is what it was meant for and that's why it creates pigeons."

[Maurog]

I sure hope we're gonna see Stanley hit someone with it in combat...

[Kalir]

Since when does magic ever have to make sense? Yes, you can force it into a reasonable effect with words and gestures that affect it,but what if you don't know what the words do? Stanley's lucky the thing hasn't bounced right back and stabbed him in the eye.

[MinusInnocence]

If I were a villain (ok Stanley isn't necessarily a VILLAIN but were I to say, "If I were a Head of State" I could just narrow it down to villain because that's the only kind of Head of State I would be) I, too, would be so heady with power I would misuse divine artifacts left over from the creation of the universe.

You don't even want to know what I'd do with Kronos's Slinky.

[The_Old_Fox]

a nice bit of random humor.

Of course can't you use pigeons to send messages? I suppose you have to train them and perhaps they need to be a special breed. whatever, just reaching.

lets stick with it being funny and random.

[Grod_The_Giant]

Has no one here any experience with magic? Pigeons are a standard result of any powerful magic artefact. Indeed students in UL have classified the base unit of magic, the thaum, as the amount of magic needed to create a white pigeon or three billiard balls.

UU, I think you mean. Unseen University.

still, always nice to see a fellow Diskworld fan.

[Azukar]

Might find this forum crawling with disCworld fans, Grod ;)

[Azukar]

Hey, I'm not a pixie anymore! woo hoo, go Azukar.

[RandomNPC]

maybe it teleports a broken open walnut into the place of the walnut, but where the broken open walnuts are stored there has been a recent pigeon invasion.